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submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Nah, oil's algae. Trees turned to coal.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Trees turn into peat which lithifies into coal. The anoxic and acidic conditions of peat bogs can slow decomposition enough to allow peat and coal to form so not all coal is from the Carboniferous, just most of it.

Also the evolutionary lag hypothesis that attributes that extra Carboniferous coal to a lack of lignin decomposers has been thrown into doubt.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Ah cool. But it's not dinosaurs that's for sure.